1st Edition

The Price of Climate Change Sustainable Financial Mechanisms

By Michael Curley Copyright 2022
132 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

132 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

132 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The Price of Climate Change: Sustainable Financial Mechanisms presents a summary of the effects of global warming with specific emphasis on what these phenomena will cost and the price we must pay for trying to mitigate these processes. Some of these mitigation strategies include reducing our use of carbon by converting to non-carbon energy sources such as solar, wind, and nuclear, or... Read more

Introduction: Paying for Climate Change

Prologue

Chapter 1 The Lake People

Chapter 2 The Beginnings

Chapter 3 International Developments

Chapter 4 Principles of Paying for Climate Change

Chapter 5 The Price of Rising Sea Levels

Chapter 6 Extreme Weather Events

Chapter 7 Desiccation

Chapter 8 Solar Energy

Chapter 9 Locational Renewable Energy Sources

Chapter 10 Nuclear Power

Chapter 11 Natural Gas

Chapter 12 Climate Finance Strategies

Chapter 13 The Price of Renewable Energy

Chapter 14 Other Renewable Energy Financing

Chapter 15 Carbon and Agriculture

Chapter 16 Tree Planting

Chapter 17 Carbon and Transportation

Chapter 18 Cap and Trade

Chapter 19 Statewide or Regional Funds

Chapter 20 Coastal Resiliency Finance

Chapter 21 Flood Insurance

Chapter 22 Environmental Impact Bonds

Index

Biography

Michael Curley is a lawyer and currently a visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, DC. He founded the Environmental Finance Centers at the University of Maryland, Cleveland State University, and the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He served as a senior lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University, and he was also an adjunct professor of banking and finance at New York University. He has also taught environmental law and finance at the Vermont Law School. In 1990, he was appointed to the Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) at the EPA, where he served for 21 years under four US Presidents.